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Auerbach denied everything, except having used the title Herr Doktor. for which, since his concentration-camp days, he admitted a certain fondness. Last week the court (three out of the five judges were former Nazis) found against Avie:"bach and Ohrenstein. sentenced Auerbach to 30 months in jail and $643 in fines, Ohrenstein to one year and $2,380 in fines. Auerbach, his arm in a sling, sick with diabetes contracted during his concentration-camp days, politely thanked the court, complimented the chief judge for the fairness of the trial, though he was somewhat critical of the "terror verdict...
...fled the country, but in 1940 the Vichy French turned him over to the Gestapo. Auerbach was sent from one concentration camp to another, finally to Buchenwald. His school knowledge of chemistry saved him from the gas chambers: he became the prison pest exterminator. The prisoners called him Herr Doktor. He survived, but the Nazis killed 21 of his relatives...
...distribute the funds. All went well until the Germans became suspicious of how Auerbach was spending the money. Methodically, they went to work collecting evidence, finally nailed him with a 102-page indictment which charged him with extortion, swearing to false affidavits, and the unauthorized use of the title Herr Doktor, but chiefly with having paid out to Jews 3,000,000 marks in false claims. Named with him was Aaron Ohrenstein, chief rabbi of Bavaria...
Just threw down the disgusting, biased and contrary-to-fact telegram by H. Keith Thompson protesting TIME'S reference to Herr Hess, Doenitz, Raeder, Speer, Funk and Von Schirach as the "Seven Blackest Nazis." Congratulations, TIME, on keeping the record straight. For one, I urgently protest the tenor of Thompson's protest. As a matter of fact, I protest having to protest the protest...
Once, when dedicated German Kurt Schumacher harangued the Bundestag, he was told: "Your time is up." "On the clock it may be, mein Herr" answered Schumacher. "But politically...